Will Phoebe have Down’s Syndrome in heaven?
It seems even too trite to write a blog post such as this but at our dinner table the other night my 6 year old son asked the question. In January 2015 our third child Phoebe was born and, as…
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Special Bonus Edition: Desperate Theologizer
What can I say, Bishop Rickey Moore has given us a bonus. We’ve been getting some worthy submissions from Mortification of Spin listeners for the next winner of the Bully Pulpit Desperate Theologizer prize—some real contenders. But this one—this one—is…
‘Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen’
IThe Christian confession of the resurrection encompasses two great matters: first, that Jesus Christ is the living one who died and is alive for evermore (Rev. 1.18), and, second, that together with him ‘God made us alive’ (Eph. 2.5). These…
Christ Descended into Hell: No Hope without It
Of the twelve affirmations that constitute the Apostles’ Creed — perhaps the most regularly recited statement of basic Christian doctrine in the western Church of the last 1500 years — none has caused greater uncertainty and debate over the centuries…
Michael Jordan or David Watts? Your Congregation Needs to Know
In wake of my product placement post, a correspondent recently drew my attention to the rise of the Reformed celebrity endorsement as a most unwholesome phenomenon. Of course, such things are not entirely new. Book commendations are an example of…
Did the second person of the Trinity die?
Who died on the Cross? Did the Second Person of the Trinity die on the cross? We affirm. (But not all of us) I recently read an argument by R.C. Sproul that suggested we should not say the second person…
Is the Wider, Reformedish Community Sustainable?
On today’s MoS podcast, Carl and I talk a little about the differences in culture when unbelievers are invited into our households and vice versa. As I’ve just started reading Christine Pohl’s, Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us,…
Three Mistakes to Avoid in Good Friday Preaching
Preaching “Christ and him crucified” is core to the job description of any minister of the Christian gospel (1 Corinthians 2:2). Good Friday drives this home more than any other day in the church calendar. On that day, the preacher’s…
Introducing Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics
Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) served as the professor of dogmatic theology at the Theological School of the Secession Christian Reformed Church in Kampen, The Netherlands, from 1883 to 1902, when he left Kampen for Abraham Kuyper’s Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His primary…
Introducing Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics
Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) served as the professor of dogmatic theology at the Theological School of the Secession Christian Reformed Church in Kampen, The Netherlands, from 1883 to 1902, when he left Kampen for Abraham Kuyper’s Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His primary…